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Research Methods in Vocabulary StudiesPhilip Durrant, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia, Benjamin Kremmel and Suhad Sonbul
[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics 2] 2022
► pp. 37–62
Chapter 4Methods in corpus linguistics
Article outline
- 1.Two ways of analysing a corpus
- 2.Studying frequency
- 2.1Frequency lists
- 2.2Dispersion
- 2.3Co-occurrence
- 2.4Calculating association measures
- 2.4.1Expected frequency and observed frequency
- 2.4.2Co-occurrence tables
- 2.4.3Calculating association measures
- 2.5Comparing frequencies
- 3.Studying language in context
- 3.1Using concordancers: Sampling and sorting
- 3.2Using concordancers: Search terms
- 4.Commonly used corpus tools and resources
- 4.1Corpora
- 4.2Tools for building a corpus
- 4.3Tools for analysing a corpus
- 5.Conclusion
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